Translation
Domains
A domain steers terminology extraction toward the vocabulary of your field. It applies to termbase work, not to plain translation.
A domain tells the model which field a term belongs to. "Discovery" means something different in a legal filing than in a research paper; "positive" means something different in a lab result than in a marketing email. Setting the domain resolves those ambiguities when terms are extracted and aligned.
Domains apply to terminology extraction, not to plain translation. Choosing a domain no longer changes how a sentence is translated. To steer translation output, use tone for register and a glossary to pin specific terms.
The domains
General (the default), Legal, Medical, Financial, Technical, Manufacturing, Government, Marketing, Automotive, and Energy.
Nine industry domains plus General. Insurance documents use Legal, pharmaceutical documents use Medical, and telecommunications documents use Technical.
Where a domain applies
- A domain is chosen in the terminology extraction step, and in terminology alignment, to identify vocabulary from your field. It is not a translation-style setting: tone controls text translation, document translation and segment retranslation.
- A domain can also be stored as document or translation-memory metadata. That label does not steer translation; approved terms influence a translation when they are applied through a glossary or translation memory.
What a domain changes
The domain is supplied with the terminology job, so an ambiguous term is read in the intended subject context and its translation is picked accordingly. A domain does not know your organization's preferred terms; record those decisions in a glossary, which does apply to translation.
Keep exploring
Terminology extraction and termbase
Find bilingual term candidates, review them, and link approved terms to reusable glossary entries.
Glossary
Store approved term pairs for a language pair and apply them during text translation, document translation, and review.
Tone
Tone controls the register of the result: nine tones on top of the standard voice.